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[Bluemoon420]

You can put a little yogurt in Kane's food. We did upon breeder's advice with Sampson. His ears were taking awhile to stand up, and that's what she advised. We did, and a couple weeks later they both were standing up, and stayed up.

Bluemoon

 

[gritsar]

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Their diet right now is their kibble, one egg a piece a day, the salmon oil and yogurt every other day.

 

[Bluemoon420]

Perfect

His ears will be fine, tell him not to worry. DH did the same exact thing with Sam aka Bow Bow Bear.

Bluemoon

 

[Crazyland]

He will be fine.

We had 3 puppies in the house and each of them had their ears come up without help. Yes we did give them lots of bones to chew so they could work those muscles and we also took them out for walks to work them in a different way. They played, chewed, and mauled each other. As you have seen in my pictures the only thing that happened is Mace has a scar on his nose.
I wouldn't worry so much since his parents have erect ears and they are not soft either.

I look forward to the post around 5 months when they go down again...

 

[Jamie_Dog_Trainer]

IMO the ears are something to watch but not get too overly worried about. If Kane doesn't have dogs in his background with soft or overly large ears he should be fine, even with the play he gets Jax.

One tip however is you can assist in his ears standing faster by rewarding him for his ears pricking forward. Tell him what a good boy he is excitedly when his ears focus on you, this will assist those muscles in developing faster. Ear push ups.

 

[gritsar]

Thanks y'all.

 

[Brindlebtch]

Jax, nein Kane's ears! Kane platz! Jax aus! That's Kane's toy! Kane komm! Nein! Nein! Nein! The both of you!
I'm learning german from my dogs

Ear push ups

 

[gritsar]

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It's true! My social life has been reduced to speaking short german phrases to two monsters!

P.S. Guess which one is more dominant?

 

[The Chicken People]

My GSD got his ear hurt by one of his siblings (as a pup) and now it doesn't stand up! Adds character but I wish it would perk up!

 

[gritsar]

Hahahaha! I just scared DH to death. I picked Kane up and carried him into Daddy, moaning oh no! oh no! oh no! Sat Kane in Daddy's lap and said LOOK! Peeled back the fur on his head and showed DH where the horns are starting to come in.